Scots comic’s family blast STV for “dreadful” tribute DVD

THE FAMILY of Scots comedy legend Chic Murray have blasted STV for attempting to flog an unofficial tribute DVD online – just weeks before their own star-studded version is to be released.

The late comic’s daughter Annabelle – who included tributes from Billy Connolly and Elaine C Smith on the DVD – said she was “horrified” when she found out STV has released a version dubbed “dreadful” by fans.

Annabelle, her brother Douglas and mum Maidie, had been working with Scots publishers Birlinn on a special DVD to celebrate what would have been Chic’s 90th birthday.

She said: “We did a documentary called A World Of His Own in 1998, with a man called Andy Bates, who works with a company called Indigo Television.

“Last year he received an emailed from Ken Maliphant of Alba Home Vision, who told Andy he was planning on releasing a DVD about my dad.“So I contacted Ken and asked him not to go ahead with it as we were planning our own.”

Horrified

Annabelle’s DVD, Just Daft – The Comic Genius of Chic Murray, contains a 1998 documentary that the family helped to make, along with many extras and unseen footage that they uncovered.

She added: “My mum recorded the introduction and ending for the DVD and the whole things has been very lovingly put together.

1 COMMENT

A company, I now rarely watch,since the dispute
with ITV,stopping the broadcasting of popular
“drama programmes”
SMG(STV) going/gone down the “tubes” !!!
Taggart being cut back,little else of note being repeated,
or proposed. A company on the backfoot/retreat.
What does STV produce for the national network ???

Apologise to the Murray family,keep the STV DVD back
for 3/4 weeks and stop grasping for every £££.